Johann Diedrich Bellmann

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Johann Diedrich Bellmann (born May 8, 1930 in Ruschwedel ; † June 25, 2006 in Nindorf ) was a Low German writer and radio play author .

Life

Johann Diedrich Bellmann grew up on a farm that his parents ran near Buxtehude . From 1936 to 1941 he attended elementary school in Nindorf, then a grammar school in Buxtehude until 1950. After graduating from high school, he studied theology , theater studies and German(including Low German philology) in Göttingen, Heidelberg, Tübingen and Vienna, but interrupted his studies and worked between 1954 and 1956 in mining, as a cabin boy and in agriculture and attended the directing class at a drama school in Vienna. In 1960 Bellmann first became a student trainee in Hamburg, from 1962 a teacher and finally director of studies in the Hanseatic city. At the state study seminar there, Bellmann took up a position as head of religion in 1968, before moving to Heide in Schleswig-Holstein in 1970 for three years as director of studies . In 1973 he took on a lectureship in German at the Theological Academy of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hanover . After his retirement, Bellmann returned to his parents' farm in 1982, which he continued to run alongside his writing.

Bellmann wrote plays, poems and prose exclusively in Low German , alongside numerous articles on Low German philology and Protestant theology. One of his best known works is Lüttjepütt or In Grootvadder sien Hüüs , in which grandfather and grandchildren talk about everyday things in life. With Margareta Jansen - De last Professa was a historical novel about the last nun in the New Monastery in Buxtehude around the year 1700. 1978 he was in the creation, editing and editors of the magazine De identifier - Journal of Low German community work involved. In 1986, Bellmann was commissioned by the Hanover regional church to compile a Low German hymn book, which was published in 1991 under the title Dor kummt een Schipp .

Johann Diedrich Bellmann was awarded numerous prizes during his lifetime and is generally considered to be one of the most important authors of contemporary Low German literature. After his death in 2006, the Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung initiated the so-called " Lüttjepütt Prize ", which honors individuals and groups who have made a contribution to the Low German language.

Publications

Books (selection)

  • 1958: Mien irste Buck ( short stories and poems), Quickborn-Verlag , Hamburg
  • 1964: Insel ünner den Wind (poems), Verlag der Fehrs-Gilde , Glinde
  • 1968: Low German narrators and Low German narratives of the present (ed.), Wachholtz Verlag , Neumünster
  • 1975: Pulpit language and linguistic community: Documents on the Low German proclamation (publisher), Institute for Low German Language, Bremen
  • 1976: Dissen Dag un all de Daag (with Heinrich Kröger ), Plattdüütsch Andachtsbook, Theological Academy Celle-Hermannsburg
  • 1979: Language, dialect and theology: Contributions to the Low German proclamation today (ed.), Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen, ISBN 3-525-60352-5
  • 1980: Low German as a church language (ed.), Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlag, Göttingen, ISBN 3-525-58116-5
  • 1981: Hör mi du fromme Gott , Plattdüütsch Gebedbook, Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, ISBN 3-525-63344-0
  • 1985: Lüttjepütt or In Grootvadder sien Hüüs , Hinstorff Verlag , Rostock, ISBN 3-356-00572-3 (since 1994)
  • 1991: Dor kummt een Schipp , Plattdüütsch Gesangbook, publisher: Working Group of Low German Pastors in Lower Saxony, ISBN 3-87546-066-9
  • 1993: Keen Tiet för den Maand (ed.), North German dialect poetry, Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock, ISBN 3-356-00514-6
  • 1998: Margareta Jansen (novel), Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock, ISBN 3-356-00788-2
  • 2004: Paradiestiet , Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock, ISBN 3-356-01015-8
  • 2006: Uns Herrgott sien Daglöhner un anner Vertelln , published by Hans-Georg Blank, ISBN 3-9810616-2-4
  • 2006: Loccumer Trilogie , Plaggenhauer Verlag, Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-937949-14-7

Plays

  • 1951: De Plaggenhauer (comedy in 3 acts)
  • 1968: De Himmel is hoch, WP: Niederdeutsche Bühne Neumünster, December 16, 1968
  • 1970: Ulenspeegel op Reisen (Narrenkummedie), premiere: Niederdeutsche Bühne Neumünster, October 18, 1971

Discography

Radio plays

Kriemhilde doesn’t want to be forgotten and Een Engel is Come were also produced by Westdeutscher Rundfunk in 1968 and 1975 in Westphalian Platt, each directed by Wolfram Rosemann .

Awards

literature

  • Heinrich Kröger : Johann Diedrich Bellmann as a representative of new Low German literature . In: Literature in the succession of Fritz Reuter, Klaus Groth and John Brinckman . Edited by Christian Bunners, Dieter Stellmacher and Jürgen Grote, Rostock 2018, pp. 114–124

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Volker Holm on the death of Johann Diedrich Bellmann on archiv.plattnet.de , accessed on March 19, 2016
  2. ↑ a b biography on the website of the Landschaftsverband Stade , accessed on March 19, 2016
  3. ↑ a b c Johann Diedrich Bellmann in the Low German Bibliography and Biography (PBuB)
personal data
SURNAME Bellmann, Johann Diedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and radio play author
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Ruschwedel
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 2006
Place of death Nindorf